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Doc.  No.  41.  i 


REPORT. 


The  commissioners  appointed  under  the  act  of  February  20th,  1864,  to  attend  to  the 
apportionment  and  expenditure  of  the  money  appropriated  by  said  act  for  the  relief  of  the 
families  of  soldiers,  living  within  the  lines  of  the  enemy,  respectfully  submit  the  following 
supplemental  report  for  the  information  of  the  committee  charged  with  the  subject: 

By  said  act  we  were  required  to  report  our  proceedings  to  the  general  assembly ;  and  in 
conformity  therewith,  at  tlA  commencement  of  the  session  we  submitted  a  general  report, 
explaining  the  manner  of  apportionment,  and  the  regulations  adopted.  Owing  to  the  late- 
ness of  the  period  we  obtained  the  amount  of  Virginia  bank  notes  in  exchange  for  the 
bonds  is.«ued  under  said  act,  and  the  activity  of  the  summer  campaign,  we  were  unable  to 
communicate  with  a  large  majority  of  the  counties  entitled  to  relief.  We  deemed  it  unad* 
visable  to  publish  the  law  in  the  public  press,  lest  it  might  lead  the  enemy  to  greater  vigi- 
lance in  the  capture  of  the  agents  appointed  to  disburse  the  funds  entrusted  to  them.  We 
however  had  it  published  in  pamphlet  form,  and  circulated  as  extensively  as  practicable. 

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We  found  at  the  date  of  our  apportionment,  that  there  were  seventy-one  countiea  and  the 
cities  of  Norfolk  and  Williamsburg  embraced  within  its  provisions. 

We  have,  during  the  summer  and  this  winter,  appointed  forty-three  agents.  A  list  of 
their  names,  with  the  names  of  their  sureties,  the  penalty  of  the  bonds,  the  amounts,  and 
when  paid,  are  herewith  submitted: 


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Doc.  No.  41.  r 

It  will  be  observed,  from  the  date  of  the  appointment  of  a  large  number  of  said  agents, 
that  they  could  not  have  had  an  opportunity  of  executing  their  tiusts,  both  from  the  want 
of  time  and  the  situation  of  the  country. 

The  agents,  so  far  as  known  to  us,  are^all  gentlemen  of  capacity  and  iutegiity.  and  not 
subject  to  military  duty,  and  residents  of  the  county  for  which  they  were  appointed. 

The  sureties  all  justified  as  to  their  solvency  to  indemnify  the  commonwealth.  We  can- 
not furnish  their  residence,  as  it  was  not  required  to  be  stated  iu  t!ie  bond ;  yet  in  many 
instances  it  is  given.  We  have  been  exact  in  not  permitting  any  amount  to  he  }>aid  uuless 
the  bonds  had  been  given.  By  a  regulation  we  adopted,  it  was  prescribed  that  agents 
might  receive  the  whole  amount  apportioned  to  their  re.«jiective  counties,  up  n  executing 
bonds  with  a  penalty  sufficient  to  cover  the  amount.  Where  the  penalty  of  tiic  bonds  di^ 
not  cover  the  amount  apportioned,  we  prescribed  that  there  should  not  be  in  the  agent;'* 
hands,  at  any  one  time,  an  amount  greater  than  the  penalty.  ^^ 

Many  of  the  agents  have  reported  to  the  board  the  manner  in  which  they  have  executed 
tlieir  trusts,  furnishing  the  names  of  the  families,  the  number,  and  the  amounts  paid  t^ 
each — all  of  w  hich  can  be  furnished  if  desired.  We  have  not  as  yet  required  a  settlement 
by  the  agents,  because  of  the  fact  that  it  has  been  impossible  for  them  to  expend  the  monej;, 
and  the  law  authorized  them  to  hold  it  until  it  could  be  distributed. 

By  order  of  the  board. 

H.  W.  THOMAS,  Prc». 


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The  committee,  under  the  resolution  of  Mr.  McKinuey,  beg  leave  to  submit  the  foregoing 
containing  atlditional  information  upon  the  subject  referred  to  them.  , 


RESOLUTION. 


Resolved,  that  the  special  committee  for  the  relief  of  indigent  families  within  the  lines  of 
the  enemy,  ascertaiti  and  report  whether  the  commissioners  who  were  appointed  to  distribute 
the  fund  appropriated  by  the  act  of  February  ^Oth,  1864,  have  complied  with  the  law,  in 
taking  bond  and  security  from  all  the  county  agents  appointed  by  them;  whether  the  agents 
are  residents  of  the  counties  for' which  they  are  appointed,  aud  over  forty-five  years  of  age, 
Cr  exempt  from  military  duty,  aud  what  regulations,  if  any,  have  been  made  to  prevent 
fraud,  and  secure  a  faithful  and  equitable  distribution  of  the  fund  in  the  sevi-ral  coiuilies 
'and  among  the  families  of  each  county;  and  that  they  further  ascertain  and  report  the 
names  and  residences  of  the  sureties  to  each  of  the  bonds  executed  by  the  agents  for  the 
several  counties;  the  penalty  of  each  bond;  the  amount  paid  to  each  agent;  whether 
money  has  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  any  agent  who  has  not  executed  bund  with  suffi» 
cient  sureties ;  and  if  so,  how  much ;  when  the  money  was  paid  to  each  agent,  and  what 
portion,  not  yet  distributed,  remains  in  his  hands. 


Doc.  No.  41. 


RESPONSE. 


In  response  to  Mr.  McKinuey's  resolution,  that  the  committee  ascertain  whether  the 
commissioners  have  complied  with  the  act  passed  February  20th,  1864,  for  the  relief  of 
soldiers'  families,  in  taking  bond  and  security  from  all  the  county  agents  appointed  by 
them ;  whether  the  agents  are  residents  of  the  county  for  which  they  are  appointed,  and 
OTer  45  years  of  age,  or  exempt  from  military  duty — 

The  commissioners  have  required  an  exact  and  strict  compliance  with  the  law.  They 
have  required  the  agents  in  every  instance  to  be  residents  of  the  county,  although  they  may 
be  temporarily  sojourning  out  of  the  limits  of  the  county  because  of  the  presence  of  the 
snemy.  "We  have  in  no  instance  appointed  any  person  as  agent  who  was  subject  to  mili- 
tary duty,  except  in  cases  where  officers  now  in  the  service  have  been  appointed,  because 
of  the  impossibility  of  getting  any  other  agent ;  and  in  those  instances  there  could  be  no 
pretext  for  exemption  on  account  of  their  agency.  We  have  required  bond  and  security  in 
every  instance — their  solvency  to  be  justified. 

We  have  adopted  a  series  of  regulations  to  prevent  fraud  and  secure  a  faithful  compliance 
by  the  agents,  a  copy  of  which  is  herewith  forwarded.  The  agents  have  in  every  case, 
where  unknown  to  the  commissioners,  been  appointed  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
members  of  the  legislature  representing  the  counties  in  which  the  money  was  to  be 
expended. 

We  have  a  file  of  the  bonds,  and  we  have  paid  no  money  unless  the  bonds  with  soretj 
were  executed. 

We  have  had  returns  from  several  of  the  agents.  In  many  instances,  however,  it  has 
been  impossible,  owing  to  the  movements  of  the  enemy,  to  communicate  with  them.  Seve- 
ral agents  have  been  recently  appointed,  and  have  not  had  time  to  execute  the  trust. 


AUDITOR'S  OFFICE,  Feb.  23,  1865. 

Gen.  Thomas  S.  Haymond  has  this  day  handed  me  three  thousand  four  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  of  confederate  notes,  and  fourteen  hundred  and  seventy-two  dollars  in  bank 
B»te8,  received  by  him  for  soldiers'  families  of  Marion  county,  to  be  handed  over  to  his 
•ttocessor. 

J.  M.  BENNETT,  AudUor, 


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